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12:35 AM ET, May 11, 2023

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Rolling Stone:
‘F—king Disgrace’: CNN Gifts Trump Primetime Campaign Rally  —  Network insiders who spoke to Rolling Stone were distraught that the former president had free rein to “spew lies” during the ill-advised town hall  —  CNN INVITED DONALD Trump to lie on its airwaves for over an hour on Wednesday night.
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Michael Fanone / Rolling Stone:
CNN Is Hosting a Town Hall for a Guy Who Tried to Get Me Killed  —  Donald Trump tried to end American democracy.  Why is CNN throwing him a rehabilitation party?  —  I WOKE UP last week to a text from my mother.  Its contents hit me like a sucker punch.  “CNN is hosting a town hall with Trump; Kaitlin Collins is moderating.
Michael A. Cohen / MSNBC:
Trump just (essentially) won the 2024 GOP primary.  Here's why.  —  How do other 2024 candidates hope to defeat the former president in a head-to-head matchup if they won't even challenge him?  —  When future historians seek to explain how a failed businessman and reality TV star took …
Jeremy Barr / Washington Post:
CNN's Kaitlan Collins tries, and tries, to rebut Trump's election lies  —  Collins, one of the network's rising stars, attempted to meet the former president's stream of falsehoods during Wednesday's live town hall with composure and tough questions  —  During a roughly 70-minute-long forum …
Allan Smith / NBC News:
Trump dismisses sex abuse verdict and gloats that it will help his 2024 bid  —  His comments came a day after a jury found him liable for sexually abusing and defaming the writer E. Jean Carroll.  —  Former President Donald Trump mocked E. Jean Carroll as a “whack job” …
Jared Gans / The Hill:
Biden trolls Trump over CNN town hall  —  President Biden trolled former President Trump on Wednesday over a contentious appearance at a CNN town hall on Wednesday, with Biden asking for supporters to donate to his reelection campaign if they don't want “four more years of that.”  —  “It's simple, folks.
Ed Mazza / HuffPost:
Hakeem Jeffries Torches Trump Republicans By Naming Their 3 Basic Pillars  —  The House minority leader told MSNBC what the MAGA wing really believes.  —  House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) put former President Donald Trump and his supporters in the Republican Party on blast …
Jonathan Allen / NBC News:
Pure Trump re-injected into the main vein of American politics at CNN town hall  —  Emboldened by polls, Trump took to the airwaves to begin selling his 2024 plans to a broader audience.  —  WASHINGTON — Americans saw a pure version of Donald Trump Wednesday — fortunately or unfortunately.
Jonathan Weisman / New York Times:
Trump's Falsehoods and Bluster Overtake CNN Town Hall
Slate:
There Is Finally Legal Recourse for Donald Trump's Lies
Discussion: New York Times, Raw Story and The Hill
Abigail Weinberg / Mother Jones:   Trump Mocked E. Jean Carroll Live on CNN. The Audience Laughed.
New York Times:
Trump Camp Sees CNN Town Hall as Calculated Risk
Michelle L. Price / Associated Press:
Takeaways from town hall: Trump says sexual assault case was ‘fake,’ calls Jan. 6 ‘a beautiful day’
Paul Gattis / al.com:
Tuberville on white nationalists in the military: ‘I call them Americans’  —  U.S. Sen. Tommy Tuberville of Alabama said there should be no efforts to block different ideological groups, including white nationalists, from serving in the military and criticized President Joe Biden for taking steps …
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Philip Bump / Washington Post:
Sen. Tuberville rises to the defense of racists in the armed forces
Discussion: Raw Story
Azi Paybarah / Washington Post:   GOP senator says of white nationalists in the military, ‘I call them Americans’
Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
McConnell breaks with Tuberville over blanket hold on military nominees
US Department of Justice:
Congressman George Santos Charged with Fraud, Money Laundering, Theft of Public Funds, and False Statements  —  For Immediate Release  —  U.S. Attorney's Office, Eastern District of New York  —  Santos Allegedly Embezzled Contributions from Supporters, Fraudulently Obtained Unemployment Benefits …
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New York Times:
George Santos Pleads Not Guilty to Fraud Charges
Ben Jacobs / Vox:
Did George Santos lie about everything?
Tony Romm / Washington Post:
Santos backed a bill to fight unemployment fraud. Now he's charged with it.
Jordain Carney / Politico:
Comer releases Biden family probe update without showing link to president  —  The Oversight panel chair revealed that Biden family members, business associates or related companies received more than $10 million from companies run by foreign nationals.  —  House Republicans on Wednesday showed …
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Philip Bump / Washington Post:
The wider House Oversight's net, the more often it catches Trump  —  The argument was put most concisely by Rep. Byron Donalds (R-Fla.), as members of the Republican majority on the House Oversight Committee sought to deliver the “judgment day for the Biden administration” that committee chair James Comer …
CNN:
House Republicans allege Biden family members received millions in payments from foreign entities in new bank records report
New York Times:
New Defamation Suit Against Fox Signals Continued Legal Threat  —  The suit, brought by a specialist in Russian disinformation, cites parallels with the recently settled Dominion Voting Systems case against Fox.  —  Fox News was hit on Wednesday with another defamation lawsuit …
Benjamin Mueller / New York Times:
Pancreatic Cancer Vaccine Shows Promise in Small Trial  —  Using mRNA tailored to each patient's tumor, the vaccine may have staved off the return of one of the deadliest forms of cancer in half of those who received it.  —  Five years ago, a small group of cancer scientists meeting …
Discussion: Nature
Dylan Byers / Puck:
The Kaitlin Era Begins Tonight  —  Kaitlan is Licht's answer at 9 p.m.—the great conservative hope upon which his legacy will likely hang.  —  Tonight, for about 90 minutes, CNN may be the most-watched news channel in America—a rare and probably fleeting distinction it has not enjoyed since January 2021 …
Andrew Romano / Yahoo News:
New Yahoo News poll shows Biden still leads Trump for 2024  —  Despite significant vulnerabilities, the president holds steady against his Republican rival in a rematch of the 2020 election.  —  As Democrats coalesce around him as their inevitable nominee, President Biden still narrowly …
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Charles M. Blow / New York Times:   The Panic Over Biden's Age Is Manufactured
New York Times:
Adams Weakens Right-to-Shelter Rules, Anticipating Migrant Surge  —  Saying New York City had “reached our limit,” Mayor Eric Adams said it would loosen regulations that have protected homeless people seeking shelter in the city.  —  New York City is temporarily suspending some of the rules related …
David Weigel / Semafor:
RFK Jr.: Ron DeSantis invited me to breakfast, said he wanted to burn the NIH “to the ground”  —  The News  —  Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis told vaccine skeptic Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. that he wanted to “burn” the National Institutes of Health “to the ground,” according to a new interview with the Democratic presidential candidate.
Brooke Singman / Fox News:
FBI doesn't share document GOP subpoenaed alleging ‘criminal scheme’ involving Biden  —  The House Oversight Committee subpoenaed the FBI for an FD-1023 form  —  The FBI did not comply with the House Oversight Committee's subpoena compelling the production of an FBI document …
Natalie Allison / Politico:
Vivek Ramaswamy wants to raise the voting age.  Even his staff doesn't like the idea.  —  The youngest candidate in the Republican presidential field is preparing to announce a proposal to raise the voting age to 25 for most people.  —  Vivek Ramaswamy, the youngest candidate …
Essi Lehto / Reuters:
Finland prime minister divorces husband  —  Finland's outgoing Prime Minister Sanna Marin has filed for divorce jointly with her husband of three years Markus Raikkonen, they said on Instagram on Wednesday.  —  “We are grateful for the 19 years together and our beloved daughter.
Discussion: New York Post
Alexandra E. Petri / Los Angeles Times:
Feinstein casts her first Senate vote in months, finally shedding light on health issues  —  California Politics  —  Sen. Dianne Feinstein returned to the Capitol on Wednesday to cast her first vote in the Senate since taking an extended  —  that threatened Democrats' slim majority and led to mounting calls for her resignation.
Joe Anuta / Politico:
Adams no longer Biden surrogate after blasting White House on migrants  —  New York City Mayor Eric Adams had said the president “failed” the city by mishandling the asylum-seeker crisis.  —  NEW YORK — President Joe Biden's reelection campaign has dropped New York City Mayor Eric Adams …
Gillian Brockell / Washington Post:
MLK's famous criticism of Malcolm X was a ‘fraud’, author finds  —  Jonathan Eig was deep in the Duke University archives researching his new biography of Martin Luther King Jr. when he made an alarming discovery: King's harshest and most famous criticism of Malcolm X, in which he accused …
Marc Rod / Jewish Insider:
Aguilar: McCarthy's cancellation of Tlaib's ‘Nakba’ event is ‘unfortunate’  —  'People should be allowed to congregate, to have discussions, to express their viewpoints and ideas.  That's who we are,' the No. 3 House Democrat told JI today  —  Rep. Pete Aguilar (D-CA), the No. 3 House Democratic leader …
 
 
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Janon Fisher / New York Daily News:
Homeless man charged with hate crimes for defecating on two LGBTQ+ Pride flags: NYPD
Discussion: New York Post
Jane Mayer / New Yorker:
How Troubling Are the Payments and Gifts to Ginni and Clarence Thomas?
Demetri Sevastopulo / Financial Times:
China pours cold water on bilateral meeting with US defence secretary
Pam Belluck / New York Times:
F.D.A. Advisers Say Benefits of Over-the-Counter Birth Control Pill Outweigh Risks
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Presidential General Election 2024 Update
House Committee on the Judiciary:
Republicans Release Report on How Senior Intelligence Community Officials and the Biden Campaign Worked to Mislead American Voters
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Ari Drennen / Media Matters for America:
New Wash. Post article cherry-picks polling to offer “political jet fuel for Republicans” restricting trans rights
Discussion: Alternet.org
Sam Levin / The Guardian:
A Walgreens guard killed a Black trans organizer. His community wants answers
Discussion: Breitbart
Justin R. Garcia / Washington Post:
In Indiana, the culture wars aim at Kinsey — the heart of sex research
Discussion: Digby's Hullabaloo
Molly Jong-Fast / Vanity Fair:
The Right's Assault on Divorce Will Put More Women at Risk
Harry Stevens / Washington Post:
We need an area the size of Texas for wind and solar. Here's how to halve it.
Discussion: NaturalNews.com
Julia Ainsley / NBC News:
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